Society...Communication...COMMUNICATION
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1382
“The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.”
— Peter F. Drucker
COMMUNICATION, Perception, Thought
1383
“The world is satisfied with words. Few appreciate the things beneath.” — Blaise Pascal
COMMUNICATION, Speeches
1384
“Speech is the image of actions.” — Solon
COMMUNICATION, Speeches
1385 H
“People will accept your idea much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.” — David H. Comins
COMMUNICATION, Originality, Wisdom
1386 H
“A professional is someone who tells you something you already know and makes it sound
confusing.” — Unknown
COMMUNICATION, Business
1387 H
“If dogs could talk, it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.” — Andy Rooney
COMMUNICATION, Family & Friends
1388 C
“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.” — Abraham Lincoln
COMMUNICATION, Perception, Reward
1389
“Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do.”
— Raymond Mortimer
COMMUNICATION, Leadership
1390
“One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them.” — (David) Dean Rusk
COMMUNICATION, Competition
1391 P
“The word ‘listen’ contains the same letters as the word ‘silent’.” — Alfred Brendel
COMMUNICATION, Knowledge
1392
“The talkative listen to no one, for they are ever speaking. And the first evil that attends those who know not how to be silent, is, that they hear nothing.” — Plutarch
COMMUNICATION, Bores, Knowledge
1393 PA
“Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop
their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes
COMMUNICATION, Bores
1394 A
“Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative
parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.”
— Saskya Pandita
COMMUNICATION, Bores
1395 CHA
“Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much
as they say.” — Charles Caleb Colton
COMMUNICATION, Bores
1396 P
“When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something.” — Jared Sparks
COMMUNICATION, Knowledge, Bores
1397 CA
“One ear heard it and at the other out it went.” — Geoffrey Chaucer
COMMUNICATION, Speeches, Knowledge
1398
“No one ever listened himself out of a job.” — Calvin Coolidge
COMMUNICATION, Knowledge
1399 P
“Silence is the genius of the fool and one of the virtues of the wise.”
— Pierre Bonnard
COMMUNICATION, Ignorance, Wisdom
1400
“Silence is the wit of fools.” — Jean de La Bruyere
COMMUNICATION, Ignorance
COMMUNICATION Cross-References
Motivation—86 • Prudence—220 •
Happiness—234, 249 • Pessimism—284 • Knowledge—570 •
Wisdom—572, 586, 591 • Perception—599, 602, 604, 615 •
Thought—622 • Decision-Making—700 • Honesty—789, 792 •
Charity—809 • Dishonesty—871-872 • Conscience—972 •
Goodness—1036 • Arts—1063-1064, 1075, 1081 • Sciences—1088 •
Authority—1124 • Leadership—1128, 1133, 1138 •
Competition—1174, 1178, 1181 • Reward—1211 • Speeches—1401, 1403-1405, 1412, 1414-1415 •
Bores—1416-1417, 1423
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